Syntax AP Flashcards
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| 5141678995 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 0 | |
| 5141678996 | Declarative sentence | Statement | 1 | |
| 5141678997 | Imperative sentence | Command | 2 | |
| 5141678998 | Interrogative sentence | Question | 3 | |
| 5141678999 | Exclamatory sentence | Shows strong emotion | 4 | |
| 5141679000 | Emphatic statement | Short, powerful sentence | 5 | |
| 5141679001 | Subject | Who or what the sentence is about | 6 | |
| 5141679002 | Predicate | The action of the sentence | 7 | |
| 5141679003 | Simple sentence | One complete independent clause | 8 | |
| 5141679004 | Compound sentence | Two complete independent clauses but no dependent clauses | 9 | |
| 5141679005 | Complex sentence | One complete independent clause with at least one dependent clause | 10 | |
| 5141679006 | Compound-complex sentence | Two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause | 11 | |
| 5141679007 | Clause | Contains a subject AND a verb | 12 | |
| 5141679008 | Phrase | Does not contain a subject AND a verb | 13 | |
| 5141679009 | Independent clause | Contains a complete thought and has a subject AND a verb | 14 | |
| 5141679010 | Dependent clause | Does not contain a complete thought but does have a subject AND a verb | 15 | |
| 5141742477 | periodic (loose) sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 16 | |
| 5141744383 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 17 | |
| 5141747841 | balanced sentence | A sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast | 18 | |
| 5141747842 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 19 | |
| 5141749093 | antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | 20 | |
| 5141750181 | anadiplosis | Word that ends a sentence, starts the next one. | 21 | |
| 5141752456 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 22 | |
| 5141753102 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 23 | |
| 5141761179 | anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 24 | |
| 5141764705 | asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 25 | |
| 5141764706 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 26 | |
| 5141766562 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 27 |